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i xnnstmas oeason Upentng In IVledjord lo ne Featured December 5th J The Weather ' Forecast: Cloudy and contin ued cold tonight and Tues day. TEMPERATURE 'Highest yesterday 47 Lowest this morning 16 Let Mail Tribune Classified Ads Solve Your Problems. Small Cost! MEDFORD RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press .Thirty-First Year aiEDFOBP, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBE'-f i936. No. 209. A piyjigijiiy)) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Major defect In the business picture now is In building. The overdue boom In ! $hs construction Industry has failed to materialize. The government has been spend ing a lot of money on it for three years, but has only suc ceeded In keep ing it from com plete breakdown. Private expendi tures have not been stimulated to any extent comparable with the pre-depres- alon era. With general Industrial production clicking along at 109 per cent of : normal, building for November lags at about A5 per cent. It is the low vet of all the major trade barometers. This Is of tremendous Importance because the bulk of unemployment Bow la in that Industry. At least. In the absence of any real statistics concerning unemployment, moat economists say It Is In that Indus try. It means the current unemploy ment condition Is not likely to be cured until the construction Indus try gets back Into stride. - What has happened to the absent building boom is not a very deep mystery. For one thing, prices are high. That Is, they are high In re lation to wages and Income. And there la not much chance that they, .-will get any lower. . , ... But that Is not all. Other Indus- j ''Ml' j tries have not yet reached the point where plant expansions arc neces- ary. Factory building for the last ten months amounted to $161,000,000, l Vhlch was good only by comparison ''. with the 90,000,00 of the same period In 1935. Commercal building f'- Sar the same ten months' period amounted only to 2O3,0OO,0OO, and it L "was 9140.000,000 for the same period -t last year. Office and store rents aro iuA high enough and business pros pect are not yet good enough to stimulate a general movement in eommorclal building. . Residential construction has done somewhat better. In the ten-month '. period It amounted to $668,000,000. ' aa compared with $394,000,000 for the ; first ten months of 1935. . : But the demand for residential construction still exists. If the gov- ernment surveys on the extent of - the residential shortage are correct. Ample credit facilities exist. The present wave of wage increases and bonusea should, If continued, stlnm J"'Ute buying. Increases of the general J?price level during November tend to put the general price level more in '" conformity to building costs. AH . these factors suggest a continued ' steady improvement in the reslden- tlon line. 1 Some slight sign of an Increase In ! factory and commercial demand Is ;: discernible. The rayon industry, for ', one, has ben run til ng at capacity and ' j Is expected to Increase Its plant : facilities. Increased earnings have ' also caused expectations of plant ex '; pans! one in steel. i: In the main, what is expected is a ( alow, smooth upward curve line, ') which may not reach pre -depression v levels very soon. f I It Is a problem which the govcrn 'i ment could probsbly help more by .: encouraging a national belief In the 1 certainty of business expansion, high ) wages and prices, than by the artlfi l clal methods which have been at : tempted. (Continued on Poge Four.) SIDE GLANCES , by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Eugne Thorndike paying football bets in a local restaurant after rue fully scanning the list of gridiron upsets over the week-end. Pete Denson bidding au re voir to friends before leaving for California and receiving bon voyages In return. Aubrey Norrls scouring the town for the more forgetful Masons to re mind thrm of the meeting Tuesday. big feed being one of the Induce ment. Elmer Knlps, Copco technician, assuming the role of weather prophet Sunday with the correct prediction that the mercury would hit a new low this morning. Dick Sleight averring this frigid that he was so cold he didn't 'know which way to no and then coutiteractlne that statement by beating an unswerving path to work. PRESIDENT'S SHIP OF GREATJHRONG Argentine Officials Greet Americans at Wharf Opening Address of Peace Parley at 6 P. M. Tuesday BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 30. (AP) President Roosevelt, acclaimed by hundreds of thousands, reached here early this afternoon for the opening tomorrow night of the 21-natlon peace conference which developed from his Initiative. Tho cruiser Indianapolis, which carried the president on his 12-day trip from Charleston, S. C, docked to the cheers of a huge throng on shore and the shrieks of whistles on 'hundreds of vessels In Buenos Aires harbor. Tho Indianapolis reached the flower-bedecked dock at 1:34 p. m. (11:34 a. m., E.3.T.) . Son First Ashore. James Roosevelt, the president's son. was the first ashore. He shook hands with Argentine President Au gustln P. Justo and others in the re ception group. President Roosevelt disembarked at 1:88 p. m. He was greeted at the pier by President Justo, United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Ar gentine Foreign Minister Carlos Ssav edra Lamas, Cardinal Santiago Co pello. and other notables. Before Mr. Roosovelt left the In dianapolis, the cruiser's band played the Argentlno anthem and then the "Star Spangled Banner," In which the Argentine navy band ashore joined. The visiting United States presi dent descended the gangplank hold ing the arm of James Roosevelt, who had re-boarded the vessel. Greets Argentine Chief. President Roosevelt got Into a car at the foot of tho gangplank after greeting President Justo. to whom he was Introduced by United States Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell. Then the two executives drove off togothor along the SO-block route to the United States embassy, Mr. Roosevelt's residence during his stay. President Roosevelt Is to make the opening address when the Inter American peace parley, proposed by him lsat winter, gets under way at e p. m. tomorrow. Eight Argentine warships and a river flotilla escorted the Indianapolis up the Rio Plata to the quay, while Argentine planes circled and dipped overhead. Near the dock along which a red (Continued on Page Eight.) 1L YREKA. Calif.. Nov. 30. (AP) I fore than 100 veniremen were dis missed until next Monday when the trial of John and Coke Brit, brothers on a charge of slaying three men, was postponed to that date. The postponement was taken be cuuse of the Illness of Horace W. fry. their attorney. The brothers were to have gone to l:lal today on charges growing out of the deaths of Deputy Sheriff Mar tin Lange. Constable Joseph Clark, end Fred Seaborn, retired naval offi cer, of Vallejo. They were shot when they sttempted to arrest the brotners lust Aug. 38. The court ruled the trial must pro ceed next Monday regardless of Pry's condition. 1936 Traffic Slaughter Will Be Worst In Book CHICAOO, Nov. 30. (UP) When all the crushed and mangled bodies have been counted, 1030 will be re corded aa the nation's worst yesr for traffic fatalities, the -Nntlonal Safety Council predicted tonight. The council, forecasting an all time high of 37.-VH) motor accident doaths, 500 more than in 1935, blam ed the Increase on pedestrians. "More persons are walking into trouble this year than last, accord ing to figures for nine months. said R, L. Forney, who graph the coun cil's grisly statistic. "Fatal pedes trian svldenta lumoed about two j pfrcc nt for this period while other type of nwitor vehicle accident dropped about one percent." 1 The trend to pedestrian deaths re AIRES P. I. Resumption Cheered fSv if The .Seattle Post-lntelllgeiirer.. which su.spendcd pulilUat lull August 13, because of a newsroom strike, retrained yesterday with John Boettl it er, (upper left) President Roosevelt's son-in-law, In the role of publish er, appointed by William Randolph Hearst, (upper right) owner. Below Is shown advertising solicitors of the P. I. hailing with cheers their re turn to work. (A. P; Photos) DEADLOCK PREVAILS IN POST-INTELLIGENCER COAST MARINE STRIKE; APPEARS AGAIN WITH EASTERN UNIONS FUSS OLD WORKERS ON JOB (By the Associated Press) Tho mnrtlme strike situation on the Pacific roast remained at an im passe today with negotiations be tween steam schooner operators and licensed deck officers at a standstill. On the east -coast the situation was enlivened bfc a dispute between striking tnsurgerrt seamen and long shoremen who have remained at work. In San Francisco federal mediators continued efforts at adjustment of the month-long blockade of the mar itime Industry. The coast guard has taken over the task of carrying emergency supplies to HI wait, with the prospect that a cutter will sail for Hawaii with a cargo of food next Thursday. Due to leave San Francisco for Seattle today were Harry Bridges, International Longshoremen's dis trict president, and Harry Lunde berg, decretory of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. And Sudden Wealth. JOPLIN. MO., Nov. 30. (API George Workman waa sAnging a pick on a WPA ditch project. Two feet below the surface his fSfck struck a pocket of lead ore, Workgia nprompt yl leased the property Tin which he waa digging and announced he would become a lpd miner. vers the tenlency of recent years, be said. From !Q?7 to 1035 pedes trtan deaths Increased only 29 per cent while other traffic accident fatalities advanced 57 per cent. While children grow more careless, the council figures Indicated, old folk cross streets more warily. For ney found the "rnoat unfavorable" trend in accident dea'tis among chil dren five and 14 years of sge, 10 percent above the 195 level, while there was a six percent drop n the "65 years or more" classification. The council statisticians found thst the annual Increase will be much as then has occurred In other years and secondly that the gaso line consumption rate has lnrreaFed over that of 1016 much faster than the death rata. AW i 4 miai mm ,V- LI I i SEATTLE, Nov. 30. (UP) The Se attle Post-In telllgencer, morning newspaper owned by William Ran dolph Hearst which has been sus pended since August 13 by a strike of editorial employes, appeared on the street last night for the first time lri more thnn three months, ss publication waa resumed. Carrying 44 pages compared to the usual Monday Issue of 16-20 pages before the enforced suspension the "green streak," late evening edition of the morning paper, was on the fltreet at 6 p. m. An editorial captioned "Statement by Mr. Hearst," commenting on re sumption of publication, waa carried on the first page of the news sec tion. "The Post-Intelligencer resumes publication this morning after Its (Continued on Page Two.) Trio Of Forgers Get Year In Pen ROCEBURO Ore., Nov. 30. p Sentences of one year each In the atate penitentiary were Imposed in the circuit court here today upon Faye Spring:, Ralph Oearhart and 3. R. Btevenscn. each accused of for gery. Springer was originally sentenced several weeks ago but waa granted a parole. The parole, however, waa for mally revoked In court this morning. : 4 14 Autos Pile Up On 5. F. Speedway SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. (AP) Because one driver Jammed on his automobile brakes to avoid a rear-end collision, 14 automobiles piled up to day on a fog-choked stretch of the high-speed Bay-shore highway, south of here. Thirteen persons were Injured, but onlv one rnulrd more than'enw- ' nmrv hosnital trat mn t . Traffic waa blockM more than an hour. 6 !Ip In Mlat DELTA. Pa.. Nov. 30. (AP) Six workmen were killed and a seventh seriously Injured today In an explo sion of dynamite at a slate quarry near the Mamn and Dixon line. The men, carrying the dynamite, wrr about to ent-r the mine of the Funk bouser company, manufacturers of roofing materlai. MM HELD INDICATION Fascist Planes Confine Ac tivity to University Sector of Madrid Socialists Jeer Red Commander MADRID, Nov. 30. (AP) Insur gent' planes raided the capital twice today, bombing government Um-s In the university section and alon the Mnm'.anares river. Tho fascist blrdmen then wheeled back to their buses without attempt ing to bomb the center of the city. The failure to take advantage of "perfect bombing weather" to attack the heart of the city Itself pusszled military circle. The government pointed to the maneuver a the latest gent attack on Madrid had been bro indteatlon that the back of the Insur ken. Franco Jeered Socialist Jeered the Insurgent com mander Francisco Franco, saying: "A general who hesitates 1 tost " Late In the day the Insurgents, tfter considerable firing In Caes de Campo across the Mn neonates river, bugan dropping shells In the center of Madrid while their left flank op ened an attack on Humera. from Po suelo de Alarcon. (This waa the first Madrid admis sion that Pozueto de Alarcon, com manding a government communica tion line on the northwest, had been taken" by-the fascist.- IPozueta 1 Dbout 7 mile northwest of Madrid and Humera Ilea on a parallel branch (Continued on Page Eight.) L COURT CLEMENCY Lester J. Measall, 98, of the Lake Creek district, who entered a plea of guilty to failure to stop his auto at the scene of an accident, waa placed under a six months' suspend ed sentence by circuit Judge H. D. Norton and his present ball of I2S00 will continue. The suspended sentence Is opera tive only during good behavior, and Mesaal la forbidden from driving an auto during the period of his driver license revocation. The auto driven by Messal struck and killed Everett J. Thompson, SB, of Talent, a highway pedestrian, on the evening of September 13. Judge Norton In granting a sus pended sentence, said there were ex tenuating circumstances. Including evidence, that Thompson, blinded by the glaring light of an approach Ing auto, had Jumped In front of Mensal's auto. The fact that Measal Is married and father of a young child, and had previously borne a good reputa tion, also acted In his favor. A petition asking leniency signed by 4fi neighbors of the Messals was also presented to the court. Cargo Of Bananas Runs Sea Blockade RAN YSIDRO, Calif.. Nov. 30 (UP) Five carloads of bananas unloaded from the Norwegian steamer Lourltu Swensen at Ensenada, Mex., crossed this little border town last night for distribution In Los Angeles and San Francisco aa fruit shippers clrcum vented the coastwlde maritime strike. The bananas were brought to the United States border by a fleet of 30 trucks. Mexican workers loaded the railroad car without Incident. No sign of strikers or picket was ported. Seven more carloads will be brought across the International line today. Recommend Hicks As Bar Examiner PORTLAND, Nov. 30. m Recip rocal relations between the Oregon and Washington bar associations wore discussed here at a conference of at torney from the neighboring states. Recommendation to the supreme court far membership on a commit tee for examination and admission to the bar IneludM Edwin D. Hlckv Med ford. Remlls rormf Itroiieht. TILLAMOOK, Nov. 80. ( AP) Ore gon's fall drought cannot be much worm than that of 1900, Bill Ryan, Blsine pioneer, recalled today. He said It rained only 13 days In De cember and that was virtually all the moisture the state had for the entire BRITISH MISTER HITS FRENCH HOPE OP 3-POWER PACT England Against Tendency to Divide World Into Con flicting Camps Friendly Relations of. All Is Aim LONDON. Nov. 30. (AP) Foreign Minister Anthony Eden dampened French hopes of an aggressive mili tary accord between Great Britain, Franco and Belgium today. 'His majesty' government.' the youthful foreign minister told the house of commons, "has explicitly deprecated any tendency to divide the world into conflicting camps. "Our policy continues to be to pro mote friendly relations between all nations." (Reports from Paris today said that Foreign Minister Yvon Delboa would annotince an agreement Friday that waa virtually a tripartite military accord between Britain, France and Belgium). Although Eden's statement was in terpreted a an expression of oppo sition to Ideological pacts and ag gressive military alliance, Britain wn said to favor defenstve under standings to promote peace. While his commons speech waa called a denial any Anglo-French-Belgian agreement would be an ag gressive military alliance, Informed commentators said such an under- (Contlnued on Page Eight.) "OWNERS OF PROPERTY TO PAT MILLION LESS IN TAXES NEXT YEAR SALEM, Nov. 30. (p) The atato tax commission handed Oregon prop erty taxpayers an early Christmas present today. The commission said that property owners will be asked for 91,033.323 In 1937 more than $1,000,000 leu than they paid In this year and the great est relief afforded them with the ex ception of 1033, when the levy was waived. Increases In revenue from Income taxes, which must be applied to re duction of the property levy, will be the principal factor In lowering of the tax despite the growing financial burdens of the atate because of capi tal reconstruction, old age assistance and the like. The commission has eliminated the entire property tax within the six per cent constitutional limitation and that levy to be collected will bo ap- ( Continued on Page Two.) Ask Sanity Test For Young Killer PENDLETON, Nov. 80. (AP) Er vln Enbysk. 14, who shot and killed Howard Gwln, taxi driver, near Pilot Rock November 8 pleaded not guilty when arraigned In circuit court here this morning before Judge Jame A, Fee. The young man asked for a sanity test. , One of the questions facing young Enbysk's examiners will be whether or not a 14-year-old boy Is capable of premeditating murder. Enbysk had previously confessed shooting owin In the back of the head. Ho will be held for trial In January, tne exami nation to be msde before that time. Santa Will Bring More Costly Gifts This Year WASHINGTON, Not. 30 (AP) Secretary Roper said today that re jKrt to the congress from all sec tions "clearly show that people are buying this Christmas more expo naive type of gift than for any season since 1020." The first comment from an ad ministration source on recent heavy d vtdend declarations, Roper said "the unprecedented distribution of corporation funds through bonusra end extra dividends la a most stimu lating factor' In the Chrlstmaa buy ing surge. "Progres report" on Chrlttms business, the secretary said, support p:i:Tious prediction that department store sale this season "will be at least 1 per cent greater than In 183fl Md will closely approach the volume attained In the 1020 fwaaon. "Our report give evldeuc of the mSVELT I Whipping Threat Brings Suicide of 12-Year.Old-Girl TULSA, Okla., Nov. 30. (UP) City Physician James H. Neal to night returned a verdict of sulcldo in the death of Dorothy Young, 13, whose body was found hanging by a wire clothe line In an out house here today. Neal said the girl apparently had been dead about 15 hours when found. Police had received a call from the girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs, William A. Young, earlier, asking that they attempt to find her. She was last seen Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Young said Dorothy had fled out the back door when she had threatened to whip her daughter for refusing to help wash dishes. EARLY MORNING BLAZE ROUTS OWENS FAMILY; Major and Mrs. George R. Owens and two children were routed from their home at 10 Geneva avenue by firs at 4 :20 yesterday morning. Aroused by suffocating smoke, they arose, sounded an alarm, dressed quickly and hastened to the outside. The fir started at the sawdust fur nace In the basement of the two-story house, exnet cause being undeter mined. The blaze crept up between wall and broke out In the bathroom on the upper floor. The downstairs hardwood floor waa practlcslly ruined snd damage was done to the wall Chief Roy Elliott reported. Damage waa, estimated at several hundred dol lars. Los wn covered by Insurance The residence Is owned by B. L. Dodge. . Firemen saved all of the Owen' furniture and furnishings, including expensive Oriental rug. The de (Continued on Page Two.) ARREST GOVERNOR RUTLAND. Vt Nov. 80. yp) State Attorney Asa S. Bloomer Is sued a warrant today against Gover nor Charles M. Smith, president of the Marble Saving bank, charging him with concealing theft. The gov ernor was released In 90,000 ball, without being Arraigned, The warrant waa served on the governor In his bank office. John J. Cocklln, an officer of the bank, was recently convicted of em benzllng 1134.000 In bank funda. Some time ago, Lathrop Baldwin, the bank treasurer waa convicted of perjury In the same case. During the past nine years, the state charge 9361,000 has been em- berzled from the bank. . Princess Held As Husband9 s Slayer MEXICO CITY, NOV. 30 (AP) Princess Concetta Leone de Nlgeratae, charged formally with killing her titled husband, waa held today tn "female killers" row of the Mexico City central Jail. Police said Leo B. Granroos, Finnish vice-counsel, told thsm h witnessed the fatal shooting of the Georgian prince, Vladimir Nlferatne, Saturday night. The princess, mother of two chil dren, was reported in a hysterical condition, threatening to kill herself. Police official said she admitted killing her husband "because I could not bear the Idea of losing htm." fact that people throughout the country are In a much more prosper ous condition now than ha been the case for the laat seven years," he con tinned. "The general uptrend of business. more widespread employment and better prices obtained by farmers, have been major factors In stimulat ing this holiday trade to the hit? heat ifvels In seversl years." Analyzing report from trade cen ter, a commerce department sum mary aald that "there have been very definite Indication In the last few week that New Yorker are no longer "penny pinching" and that money in Increasing amount Is being spent on goods other than necessities. " The "unexpected money pumped out In extra dividend In New York." It waa said, "Is finding U way into pnrehnee of fur roar. Jewelry, furni ture and automobile." L Child's Mother Bound Hand and Foot Lies Helpless Nearby As Brutal Act Committed by Husband JESUP, On., No7. SO. (AP) Sher III B. Warren announced today the arreat of a 51-year old Itinerant re pairman, charged with stamping to death hla 14-year old atep-daughter while the child's mother, bound hand and loot, lay helpless nearby. The child, bleeding about the mouth and ears, was removed last Wednesday to a hospital In Bruns wick, where she died. Warren aald the stepfather, L. R. Ward, reported she had been struck by a "hit and run motorist." The aherlff aald the accused man denied he struck the girl, but that the mother "told ua the most plilful alory I ever heard." The step-father, Warren said, was arrested during funeral services for the child near Lyons, Oa. The sheriff declined to say where the step-father Is held. The sheriff said "Jealousy" was the motive for the attack.' Warren said the motber told him Ward had tied her hands with rope, and her feet with chain. "The little girl weighed 73 pounds. The step-father weighs about 300," he said. FOG AND FREEZE PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 80 (AP) Pog and cold weather put a damper, on late-season fires In wostern Ore gon end Washington today, and barring an unexpected resumption of the brisk east wind forest otriolala Indicated the Immediate danger was over. Crews In ivnst sectors were cut In hslf. It was estimated roughly fires ths past week swept over 30,000 acres In the Columbia river area of Wash ington snd 16.000 acres In west cen tral Oregon snd along the coast mostly on second growth or cutover land. All conflagrations were reported tinder control. Until the usual drenching rains visit the nnrthwost, however, forest officials stressed thst the potential danger would not be ended. SALEM, Nov. 80. (P) Marlon county Townsendlam split today over a proposed compromise on the orig inal pension plan for (300 a month. A group favoring the 200-a-month program walked out of a meeting Saturday night when a faction voted to accept ISO a month as a starter. The exodus csme as tho hat waa be ing passed to defray meeting costs. Among those favoring the eso-a-month program waa Theodora O. Nel son, stormy petrel of Oregon Town sendlsm. RUSSIA NEEDS NO AID SAYS HEAD COMMISSAR MOSCOW, Nov. SO, (AP) Russia relies on "nobody but ourselves and our own atrength," aaya Vyaoheslaff Molotoff, president of the council of commissars. , 8peaklng at the climax of ses sion of heated attacks on Nszl Ger many and fascism at the eighth all union oongreaa of Soviets yesterday, Molotoff declared: . "We cannot have a common lang uage with fascism whose dsngera we neither exaggerate nor under-estl-mate." Governor Kecovera. BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 30. (AP) Governor C. Beu Rosa returned to hi desk today apparently recovered from pleurisy. "I'm feeling all right now; just need a Ht'le rest," Ross com mented, He spent a week at horns snd In a hospital. , 4 Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid (10.73: asked 11.73. Qusrtarty Income, btd 118.80; asked aao.77.
